To Depersonalize Man Is The Dominant Drift

Materialism Coarsens And Petrifies Everything, Making Everything Vulgar, And Every Truth False.

To Be Misunderstood Even By Those Whom One Loves Is The Cross And Bitterness Of Life. It Is The Secret Of That Sad And Melancholy Smile On The Lips Of Great Men Which So Few Understand.

Any Landscape Is A Condition Of The Spirit.

There Is No Respect For Others Without Humility In One's Self.

I Am A Spectator, So To Speak, Of The Molecular Whirlwind Which Men Call Individual Life; I Am Conscious Of An Incessant Metamorphosis, An Irresistible Movement Of Existence, Which Is Going On Within Me - And This Phenomenology Of Myself Serves As A Window Opened Upon The Mystery Of The World.